Execution of Robert Watt for high treason, at Edinburgh Octr. 15th 1794 [graphic].

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Title: Execution of Robert Watt for high treason, at Edinburgh Octr. 15th 1794 [graphic].
Contributor: Exshaw, J. 1750 or 1751-1827, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1794]
Publication Place: Dublin
Publisher: J. Exshaw
Abstract: The convicted traitor Robert Watt sits on an open sled being pulled by a horse through a city square. A man in a hat, perhaps the executioner, sits across from him holding an axe. Soldiers escort the sled through the crowd. In the distance on the right, a man stands on a platform outside the upper floor of a building and readies a noose
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved.
Plate from: Exshaw's Gentleman's and London magazine. Dublin : J. Exshaw, October 1794.
Sheet mutilated along bottom edge with slight loss of text.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Periodical illustrations
Etchings Ireland Dublin 1794
Engravings Ireland Dublin 1794
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Edinburgh (Scotland)
Subject (Name): Watt, Robert, -1794.
Subject (Topic): Criminals
Executions
Plazas
Sleds & sleighs
Subjects: Watt, Robert, -1794
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Criminals
Executions
Plazas
Sleds & sleighs
Ireland > Dublin > 1794

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